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The revival of the literature of the 30's through which we have recently been living—the republication of novels long out of print, the redemption of reputations long lapsed, the compilation of anthologies long overdue—has been oddly one-sided.
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April 1967 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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Deep in the mind of America, if not actually below, at least at the lowest level of consciousness, there exist side by side a dream and a nightmare of race relations; and the two together constitute a legend of the American frontier, of the West, or of the South.
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October 1963 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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After the publication in 1935 of his first and only novel, Call It Sleep, HENRY ROTH retired completely from the literary scene until last year when his parable, "At Times in Flight," appeared in...
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August 1960 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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Duplicity is the most notable, perhaps the essential characteristic of the greatest American novelists; and surely the most duplicitous of all is Mark Twain, precisely because he wears the...
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March 1960 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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The Fours Sons FOUR sons only says the Law Spring from all the seed we sow; Wise or wicked, foolish, dumb Suffice to name whatever son. Wise one, ask that I may still Recite what asking you...
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February 1959 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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March 1957 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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Leslie A. Fiedler discusses American liberalism in his brief review of the career that has led Irwin Shaw from the "Bury the Dead" of the 30’s to the best-selling "Lucy Crown" of today.
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July 1956 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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February 1956 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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September 1955 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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June 1955 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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It is difficult really to believe in Passover in Rome.
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April 1954 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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May 1952 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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On the face of it, the Moses of Sholem Asch seems to fit easily into the category of that hybrid which is the current historical-religious novel.
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January 1952 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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THERE are certain books in a tradition which, after a while, everyone stops reading, but which no one can stop writing; the less aware a novelist is of the book's existence, the more he...
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September 1951 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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You will either aid in moulding history, or history will mould you, and in the case of the latter, you can rest assured that you will be indescribably crushed and maimed in the process.......
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August 1951 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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"CAST aside all beliefs that serve to fill up emptiness or sweeten what is bitter: the belief in immortality; the belief that good somehow comes of sin, etiam peccata; the belief in...
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January 1951 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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No one can write about William Faulkner without committing himself to the weary task of trying to disengage the author and his work from the misconceptions that surround them.
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October 1950 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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November 1949 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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“Since the Diaspora, and the scattering of the Jews amongst peoples holding the Christian Faith,” T. S. Eliot writes in an incidental footnote in Towards a Definition of Culture, “it may have been unfortunate both for these peoples and for the Jews themselves, that the culture-contact between them has had to be within those neutral zones of culture in which religion could be ignored. . . .”
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May 1949 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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February 1949 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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December 1948 |
Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler |
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A Story.
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March 1948 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
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A Story.
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November 1947 |
Leslie A. Fiedler |
